If they get at least 10 gold awarded to them within 12 months, and meet the karma/yr threshold, and stay in “good standing” , and aren’t nsfw, and any number of the other thresholds Reddit could use to say no, then they might get ~50% of the price paid to award it. Otherwise Reddit just keeps it all.
Support as in the ‘stroke the ego’ sense not ‘help financially put food on the table and heat their home’ sense
I would really like to see lemmy add a ‘direct donation’ button to post and comments that links to their paypal or whatever. I think throwing a dollar or two directly at the person who made the comment or post you really liked is an infinitely better way to support them than throwing that money at a company so that they can award a shiny digital icon above the post.
While I like the sentiment, in reality I think it would do the same thing as it’s doing on Reddit - turn Lemmy into a huge bot farm trying to get money from real users.
Is this real?
Yeah:
I’m not going back to Reddit to find the answer but does any of this money actually go to the creators of the post that gets gold?
If they get at least 10 gold awarded to them within 12 months, and meet the karma/yr threshold, and stay in “good standing” , and aren’t nsfw, and any number of the other thresholds Reddit could use to say no, then they might get ~50% of the price paid to award it. Otherwise Reddit just keeps it all.
Investors be like
They don’t get money, they get exposure which is more valuable than money anyway /s in case it wasn’t obvious
Exposure is something people can die from.
Like Paul Smith who lives in Wegstraße 42, 12345 Berlin, Germany. He blocked me but don’t send him death threats because of it.
No
Support as in the ‘stroke the ego’ sense not ‘help financially put food on the table and heat their home’ sense
I would really like to see lemmy add a ‘direct donation’ button to post and comments that links to their paypal or whatever. I think throwing a dollar or two directly at the person who made the comment or post you really liked is an infinitely better way to support them than throwing that money at a company so that they can award a shiny digital icon above the post.
While I like the sentiment, in reality I think it would do the same thing as it’s doing on Reddit - turn Lemmy into a huge bot farm trying to get money from real users.